Documenting individual identity : the development of state practices in the modern world /

This book addresses one of the least studied yet most pervasive aspects of modern life--the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity. From passports and identity cards to labor registration and alien documentation, from fingerprinting to much-debated contempor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: PRINCETON : PRINCETON UNIV Press, 2001.
Temas:
Identification > History.
Passports > History.
Status (Law) > History.
Identification > Histoire.
Passeports > Histoire.
Statut juridique > Histoire.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Identification
Passports
Status (Law)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Jane Coplan and John Torpey
  • PART ONE: CREATING APPARATUSES OF IDENTIFICATION
  • 1. Describing the Person, Reading the Signs in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Identity Papers, Vested Figures, and the Limits of Identification, 1400-1600 / Groebner, Valentin
  • 2. The Identification of the Citizen: The Birth of Republican Civil Status in France / Noiriel, Gérard
  • 3. "This or That Particular Person": Protocols of Identification in Nineteenth-Century Europe / Caplan, Jane
  • 4. Making Social Groups, One Person at a Time: The Identification of Individuals by Estate, Religious Confession, and Ethnicity in Late Imperial Russia / Steinwedel, Charles
  • 5. Colonizing the Subject: The Genealogy and Legacy of the Soviet Internal Passport / Garcelon, Marc
  • 6. Modern Horrors: British Identity and Identity Cards / Agar, Jon
  • PART TWO: IDENTIFICATION PRACTICES AND POLICING
  • 7. Republican Identity: Bertillonage as Government Technique / Kaluszynski, Martine
  • 8. The Standardized Gaze: The Standardization of the Search Warrant in Nineteenth-Century Germany / Becker, Peter
  • 9. Anthropometry, the Police Expert, and the Deptford Murders: The Contested Introduction of Fingerprinting for the Identification of Criminals in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Joseph, Anne M.
  • 10. Fingerprinting and the Argentine Plan for Universal Identification in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Ruggiero, Kristin
  • PART THREE: IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL OF MOVEMENT
  • 11. Domenica Saba Takes to the Road: Origins and Development of a Modern Passport System in Lombardy-Veneto / Geselle, Andrea
  • 12. Governments and Forgers: Passports in Nineteenth-Century Europe / Fahrmeir, Andreas
  • 13. A Many-Headed Monster: The Evolution of the Passport System in the Netherlands and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century / Lucassen, Leo
  • 14. The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Passport System / Torpey, John
  • PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN IDENTIFICATION
  • 15. DNA-Typing: Galton's Eugenic Dream Realized? / Sankar, Pamela
  • 16. Under My Skin: From Identification Papers to Body Surveillance / Lyon, David
  • 17. Identity and Anonymity: Some Conceptual Distinctions and Issues for Research / Marx, Gary T.
  • 18. Identifiying Unauthorized Foreign Workers in the German Labor Market / Vogel, Dita
  • 19. Identity Cards, Ethnic Self-Perception, and Genocide in Rwanda / Longman, Timothy
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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